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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Egg, nest, house, country, and universe are images of what, in the opinion of Bachelard?
(a) Wonders of nature.
(b) The universe.
(c) Poetic fancy.
(d) The inhabiting function.

2. Why is the city house no longer cosmic for the author?
(a) The city house, or apartment, has no intimacy because it shares common walls.
(b) The city house, or apartment, has no verticality because elevators have replaced stairs.
(c) The city house, or apartment, has no security because too many people live too close together.
(d) The city house, or apartment, is usually not one's childhood home.

3. Who noted that inside seems cozier when the outside weather is severe?
(a) Bosco.
(b) Baudelaire.
(c) Rilke.
(d) Bachelard.

4. For Bachelard, topophilia can be described in what way?
(a) The nature of a plot of land, whether flat or sloped.
(b) Happy space that is eulogized and enjoyed.
(c) Fear of steep hillsides.
(d) Fears related to a house's interior space.

5. As explained in "The House, from Cellar to Garret . . .," what is the main benefit of a house?
(a) To define boundaries.
(b) To shelter daydreaming.
(c) To protect property.
(d) To create cities.

6. Due to the intimacy of cherished objects, states Bachelard, housework can become what sort of activity?
(a) Creative.
(b) Group.
(c) Recreational.
(d) Mundane.

7. When is the value of a house as intimate shelter most evident, according to Bachelard?
(a) When it is assailed by elements of nature.
(b) When a new family moves in.
(c) When it is vacant.
(d) When it is immortalized by a poet.

8. A woodpecker pecking in a tree can be compared to what in the author's continuing metaphor?
(a) A poetic anomoly.
(b) A psychoanalyst probing the psyche.
(c) A storm ravaging a house.
(d) Annoying neighbors who create a disturbance.

9. For Bachelard, the well-being of a nest diminishes what?
(a) The need for poetic expression.
(b) Scientific objectivity.
(c) Hostility of the world.
(d) The desire to find a new home.

10. Which level of a house is protected with strong beams and rafters, and, states the author, has darkness that disappears in daylight?
(a) Every level.
(b) The main living area.
(c) The cellar.
(d) The attic.

11. The painter, Vlaminck, compared the contentment of humans to what?
(a) The refuge a rat finds in his hole or a rabbit in his burrow.
(b) The majesty of a cathedral.
(c) The security of a chrysalis.
(d) The security of a snail shell.

12. Childhood is held motionless, states Bachelard, by dreaming of what?
(a) The phenomenology of motherhood.
(b) Nursery rhymes.
(c) Stick-figure drawings.
(d) The house where one was born.

13. How is a cathedral similar to a snail shell in the opinion of Bachelard?
(a) Quasimodo inhabited the cathedral, with its nooks and crannies, as a snail inhabits its shell.
(b) Both are constructed of sturdy materials.
(c) Quasimodo considered the cathedral to be claustrophobic, like a snail shell.
(d) Both seem born of their surroundings.

14. Bachelard realized his acquired knowledge in science was inadequate to understand what?
(a) The intricacies of architecture.
(b) The real estate market.
(c) The field of psychoanalysis.
(d) The poetic imagination.

15. Central to the author's main theme in "Nests," how does a simple image avoid intimidation?
(a) Repetition.
(b) Rhythm and rhyme.
(c) Majesty.
(d) Color.

Short Answer Questions

1. A phenomenologist considers what regarding a house?

2. What romantic notion does Bachelard dispute?

3. How does Bachelard say we experience a house buried in a blanket of snow in what way?

4. Bachelard theorizes that dreams of nests inspire what?

5. Many houses are structured in levels, as described in "The House, from Cellar to Garret . . .,"appealing to what sense?

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